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California Man, 26, Undergoes Most Advanced Facial Transplant Ever

About a year after Cameron Underwood underwent the most advanced face transplant surgery ever performed, the 26-year-old is revealing his new look. He is golfin...

Ocasio-Cortez tells Mike Huckabee to leave 'false statements' to his daughter

Ocasio-Cortez, who knocked off longtime political power broker Rep. Joe Crowley in June's Democratic primary, shot back at the one-time Arkansas governor shortl...

Produce industry expects to ship some romaine again soon

The FDA is continuing tracebacks of romaine lettuce from locations where impacted consumers purchased or consumed romaine lettuce before they became ill in orde...

Gene-editing babies a violation of Chinese law, says official

Immediately after his presentation, David Baltimore, a Nobel laureate who led the conference's organising committee, told the audience that what He had done "wo...

Gel formulation of a new male contraceptive on trial

It is at present approved by the United States Food and Drugs Administration (US FDA) as a hormonal contraceptive as well as used in treatment of endometriosis ...

Hair dye allergy swells woman's head to twice its size

Estelle, an English student from Paris, had wanted to carry out the simple transition from blonde to brunette and had bought a common hair dying product from th...

County officials announce first flu death of the season

So, don't forget your flu shot. There are also free and low-priced options for under- and uninsured children and pregnant women. The Centers for Disease Contr...

Death rate for those 85+ increases 'significantly,' CDC says

The drug overdose rate rose 9.6 per cent compared to 2016, while suicides climbed 3.7 per cent, said the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC)...

Liquid diet to be prescribed to diabetes patients

Around nine out of 10 people with diabetes have type 2, which is closely linked to obesity and has also been linked to a string of serious illnesses, includ...

India home to a third of world's stunted children, says report

The mapping showed that stunting varies greatly from district to district (12.4 per cent to 65.1 per cent), with 239 of the 604 districts having stunting leve...

Bruce Springsteen Opens Up About Depression

In addition to Zimny, the Netflix original special is produced by the same team that produced " Springsteen On Broadway ", including Springsteen manager Jon Lan...

Pregnant mom with cancer makes plea for help, finds ‘perfect match’

Rabaca's doctors had planned for the transplant to occur shortly after the twins' December 6 arrival. Her daughter helped record a video on Facebook asking ...

Worrisome longhorned tick spreading rapidly in US — CDC

The ticks are a nuisance in their native Asia where they have been blamed for spreading disease to humans as well as affecting livestock. "The full public hea...

British MP tells UK Parliament he is HIV positive

December 1 every year has been slated by the United Nations as World Aids Day with the UNAIDS leading the global celebrations. The main event will be held in ...

Measles resurgence 'due to vaccine hesitancy', WHO warns

Much of this increase is due to the collapse of health systems in Venezuela, but the growing number of cases in Europe , which has seen cases increase by mor...

Woman’s head doubles in size after using hair dye

However, instead of waiting for the recommended 48 hours, reports say Estelle applied the dye after just 30 minutes. The girl said that she noticed irritati...

U.S. life expectancy drops due to drug overdoses

In a statement issued Thursday, Levine added that "our data and that of the CDC tell me that Vermont and the nation have to be in this for the long haul". B...

US urged to send Ebola experts in as Congo outbreak worsens

The World Health Organization reported late Thursday that it's found 426 cases - one more than a massive outbreak in Uganda almost two decades ago. Despit...

The US mortality crisis: CDC reports extraordinary drop in life expectancy

On average, the life expectancy of Americans declined by a tenth of a year from 2016, falling to 78.6 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control's (C...

MP reveals he is HIV positive in attempt to tackle stigma

In remarks released before his announcement, he said: "Since then I have been on world-class treatment provided by the NHS - so I have not only survived, I've p...

Climate change ups heat deaths, especially among elderly

Using their varied health and climate metrics, the Lancet study authors said they had detected 18 million more at-risk people exposed to unsafe levels of he...

Ebola outbreak in east Congo now world's second biggest

Health workers hope that the first multi-drug Ebola treatment trial, announced by DR Congo's health ministry on Monday, will help to contain this and future out...

Lloyd Russell-Moyle: MP tells the Commons he has HIV

He said testing is also crucial to achieving the United Nation's "90-90-90" targets, which call for the diagnosis of at least 90 percent of all HIV-positive ind...

Amazon to sell medical software

It will help them better "read" data and identify information such as patient diagnosis, treatments, dosages or symptoms. "The majority of health and patient ...

Atrium Health Says "Cyber Incident" Could Impact Patients

The compromised database included data of the guarantors and patients, including full names, addresses, dates of birth, insurance policy details, medical record...

Endurance training is better than resistance training for anti-ageing

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MP startles parliament, reveals he is HIV positive

A British MP has become the first sitting member to disclose he is HIV positive to the United Kingdom parliament. "I hope that my coming out serves to defy ...

Endurance, Not Resistance Training, Has Anti-Ageing Effects

The third group was engaged in power exercises. Telomeres are the protective "caps" at the end of chromosomes which are found in all the cells in the body. "It ...

Is it now safe to eat romaine lettuce? Not yet

Investigators are using evidence collected in both outbreaks to help identify the possible cause of the contamination in these events. Health officials said t...

Another year, another decrease in life expectancy in the US

The estimate of how long a person born in 2017 can expect to live in the United States is 78.6 years, a decrease of 0.1 year from 2016, the government statistic...